Does japanese schools skip WWII in their "history" class?

[Looney]

Since we get all our info from our educators, we naturally think we are getting the whole picture and others aren't. History is always taught that way I think. It's hard for most teachers to give a world view anywhere in the world without pissing off someone locally.

No, i don't think it has anything to do with pissing off anybody... or purposely trying to deceive students. It's the fact that there are so many facet to war, you can't possibly cover EVERYTHING about it... at least not at the highschool level. So they focus on what's important to them, which is their own history and their own involvement.

Students are taught that Russia played a major role in the war... even though they might not necessary go into detail battles such as they might with the Battle of the Bulge. It's just common-sense that they would focus on what's important to their own history rather than trying to encompass everything about the war. People are taking history to learn about their own history, not about world history... that's a course in itself.

The Japanese however, do overtly lie about what they did or didn't do in the war. The Germans did worst, but they own up to it and it is taught in the school.

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: gentobu

They call it the 'second impact'.

hhahaa am i the only one who got that?!?!? oh well, nice one!

 

[slick230]

And now, the obligatory French bashing reply:

I wonder if their text books depict their involvement in WWII as heroic freedom fighters who won the war by bashing the mean old Nazis over the heads with baguettes and bottles of cheap french wine, while wearing stylish berets and smoking bad cigarettes?

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: JCE86
I can not say for sure about all schools in Japan, but I do know that schools do teach WWII history. However, at times, it would seem they condense all of Japan's atrocities during the war into one page in the whole textbook. I could definately compare this to learning about the concentration camps for Japanese-Americans, the Vietnam War, or other wrong doings by the United States when I was still in high school. I do not defend its current status, nor am I against it.

not singling you out, but I heard about all the past agressions by the US in my history class.


We were not wrong in going to Vietnam though, we gave our word to our allies at the end of ww2 and we had to honor that, we should however booked as soon as the French bailed, damn EU and their colonies....

 

[Ranger X]

My guess is it's the same as here. They don't learn the truth until college.

 

[slick230]

Originally posted by: Ranger X
My guess is it's the same as here. They don't learn the truth until college.

... and then they become militant hippie treehugging anarchists? Like here?

 

[MarklarMarklar]

Yes they teach it. Except in their version they won.